Thrasamund

Thrasamund (450-523) was King of the Vandals from 496 to 523, succeeding Gunthamund and preceding Hilderic.

Biography
Thrasamund was the grandson of Gaiseric, the nephew of Huneric, and the brother of Gunthamund. He succeeded his brother as King of the Vandals in 496, and he married Theoderic the Great's sister in 500 AD. However, Thrasamund failed to aid Theoderic when the Byzantine fleet ravaged southern Italy, and he was also unable to reinforce the Visigoths before the Battle of Vouille. He became friends with Emperor Anastasius I of Byzantium, and he ended the persecution of Catholicism in his lands. He died in 523, and his cousin Hilderic succeeded him.